Designing a big house is one thing. But how do you design one with big ideas? For architect Robin Donaldson and his client, an investor, that was the question confronting them nearly a decade ago, when the pair began discussing what to build on a one-of-a-kind site in Los Angeles. The choicest cut of the city’s most prime real estate, the Trousdale section of Beverly Hills is a glamorous redoubt of Hollywood talent and business titans, prized for its eye-popping views stretching clear from downtown to the sea.
